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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,17:51 QUOTE
Checking further "Boot/grub" files appear in Emelfm on mnt/hdb2. but does not show up on shutdown and restart.
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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,23:01 QUOTE
Now my Windows2k is at a crawl. Restored its performance by removing hardrive (hdb1) dedicated to frugal installation.
Guess I'll stay with LiveCD. It's great.
Thanks for all the responses.
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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,04:01 QUOTE
Grub worked on my system when I had SUSE 10.1 installed on my second harddrive. Un-installed it as it was too bloated for my taste. Fixed MBR then with dos disk "fdisk /mbr".
Just wondering why Grub does not want to work with frugal installation of DSL.
Any suggestions?.
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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,04:33 QUOTE
Either set your BIOS to boot off hdb or physically switch them.

Or install grub to hda.
Or use a bootfloppy/cd/etc.
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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,15:11 QUOTE
Thanks T.H.T.
Pardon my ignorance but if I change the bios to boot from hdb will I still be able to use Win2k on drive C?.

"Install Grub to hda" I thought that was in the Frugal script.

"Bootfloppy/cd" would that be the "poormans" install?

Have to keep Win2k until I find alternative Linux programs to replace the ones I have.
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